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“Chaos? It’s as American as apple pie! I love chaos; it’s the law that scares me. It should scare you too.”

July 01, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Chaos, Norm Pattis

SPOILER ALERT! Don’t read the title of this post if you haven’t finished reading Norm Pattis‘ new book, Taking Back the Courts: What We Can Do to Reclaim Our Sovereignty, as those are the words with which it concludes.

I’ll write more about the book later, once I’ve actually finished it, but wanted to note the coincidence of Norm’s (perhaps hyperbolic) embrace of “chaos” with my (perhaps hyperbolic) embrace of “chaos” in my last post, titled “Chaotic Good v. Lawful Evil.” (Incidentally, for the edification of my non-geek readers, “Chaotic Good” and “Lawful Evil” are “alignments” in Dungeons & Dragons.)

Chaotic Good v. Lawful Evil

June 26, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Chaos

Anarchists hoping to spread the word and aspiring to a modicum of acceptance and respectability, including myself, are perhaps too eager to clarify that “anarchy” doesn’t mean chaos, to emphasize that the change we seek is incremental, and to point out that the famous circled-A symbol for anarchy signifies “Anarchy is Order.”

I mean, so what if the homicide rate in the Old West was seven times what it is today? That doesn’t answer the question of whether life in the Wild West wasn’t better and grander than it is today, or whether life today wouldn’t be better and grander if the State suddenly collapsed . . . even if the homicide rate reverted to Wild West levels.

Naive fool “know[s] that anyone applauding anarchy is a naive fool.”

February 03, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Anarchists, Chaos, Thomas Jefferson

Now, I have no special reason for going out of my way to insult by quoting as I have above Scott Greenfield (I still like the guy), other than that in his post today at Simple Justice from which I’ve quoted he appears to have gone out of his way to insult and misrepresent all anarchists (and reluctant anarchists) of good will everywhere.

Anarchy is not chaos. It’s “rulerlessness.” It’s not something unheard of in the modern world. In fact, it’s the prevailing condition of international relations between so-called “sovereign” states (despite the United States’ longstanding propensity to act as if it’s the world’s ruler). It’s the principle behind the vaunted “balance of powers” supposedly built into the U.S. Constitution (though this principle is itself unfortunately “balanced” in the Constitution by other elements aiming towards the concentration of power).

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